Jobs for June, in the vegetable garden.
Protect ripening fruit from birds, and put matting or straw around strawberry plants to protect from slugs and to keep the berries clean. Thin gooseberries to give a larger desert quality fruit. Thin the fruit on peaches and nectarine trees, again to give better fruit. Prune blackcurrants at the same time as picking the fruit, cutting out the oldest fruited wood. Also wall trained plums and cherries can be pruned now, cutting back to 6 leaves and taking out mis-shaped branches.
Continue to sow salad crops, and herbs such as basil and coriander to give a continuous supply. Sow Florence Fennel and oriental vegetables such as Pak Choi, Mustard greens and Chinese cabbage. Early potatoes might be ready to harvest, when the plants have come into flower.
In the flower garden, thin out the annual seedings sown last month, and keep the weed down in the borders. Dead head flowers as they finish, and cut back plants such as geraniums when the have finished flowering, you might get a second flush of leaves and flowers in the autumn. Divide Bearded Iris once they have finished flowering, remove the old rhizome and replant a healthy looking piece, adding a little bone meal, and making sure that the rhizome is sitting on top of the soil, with roots in the soil, so that it get a good amount of sun, this will give you a good show for next year. Cut back the leaves by about 1 third. Sow spring flowers for next year, Bellis, Wallflowers, and Violas. Prune spring flowering shrubs, Weigela, Deutzia, Philadelphus, when they have finished flowering.
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